Helpful Score: 2
This book starts rather slow and I was concerned that I would not enjoy it, however that could never farther from the truth, once this book gets going it is filled with thrills, mystery, romance and more. I did not read the first in this series and need to go back and read that one, but hope that there will be more to this series or at least from this author. Characters are well developed, you can easily love and hate some of teh characters (and secretly be happy for their death!) which to me is a mark of a great book.
From the website of the author, Christine Trent:
This story follows the adventures of Marguerite du Georges, who inherits The Queens Dollmaker shop. After her young husband is killed in a riot, she abandons the doll shop and London to travel around the country as a waxworking apprentice to the great Madame Tussaud, who has moved her exhibition over from France. Marguerite's new career nearly melts down when she assists the English crown in a scheme to create wax effigies of important political figures to fool Napoleon into thinking that England is negotiating treaties and alliances with other countries, when in fact something else entirely is happening. A French spy catches on to Marguerite's game and Napoleon's long grasp puts her in mortal danger.
This story follows the adventures of Marguerite du Georges, who inherits The Queens Dollmaker shop. After her young husband is killed in a riot, she abandons the doll shop and London to travel around the country as a waxworking apprentice to the great Madame Tussaud, who has moved her exhibition over from France. Marguerite's new career nearly melts down when she assists the English crown in a scheme to create wax effigies of important political figures to fool Napoleon into thinking that England is negotiating treaties and alliances with other countries, when in fact something else entirely is happening. A French spy catches on to Marguerite's game and Napoleon's long grasp puts her in mortal danger.
